Word: tree
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...sank his teeth into the man's calf. Screaming with pain, the man hopped wildly on one leg, trying to shake the cat off. The others also tried to grab Fluffy, but the agile cat ran out of the house and climbed onto his favorite branch of the magnolia tree. From this safe perch, Fluffy looked at us and mewed. The wounded man was almost demented. He dashed to the tree and shook it. Fluffy hopped up to a higher branch, ran onto the roof of my neighbor's house and disappeared into the night. One of the men said...
...researchers found him and brought him back. The doctor treated him briefly, then sent him back to the wild." Unfortunately for Xiang Xiang, the tough-love approach only compounded his problems. In a subsequent encounter with a woods-wise cousin, Xiang Xiang tried to escape by climbing a tree. The hapless bear fell out and, from what rangers could gather over their monitors, probably broke a leg. Since then, Xiang Xiang hasn't been seen. Still, Zhang insists his charge had to be banished. "We did not want to keep Xiang Xiang because that would have shown our experiment...
...pigskin may be brown, but game day is going green. When the stadium lights flick on in Miami Feb. 4 for Super Bowl XLI, the world's most ballyhooed kickoff will be carbon neutral. In the past, the NFL has sponsored tree plantings to offset the hundreds of tons of greenhouse gases emitted during the event--from stadium lights and other fuel burners, like the buses that shuttle spectators around town. This year the league is partnering with alternative-energy provider Sterling Planet to use renewable-energy certificates (RECs) to promote the use of nonpolluting power sources. Lowering emissions...
...give up, no way. I moved on and started thinking outside the box. I wanted something representative of how powerful we are but also something unique, different, that no one has ever thought of.Plants. Yes, plants. No one has a plant mascot, except for the Stanford tree, but they’re actually the Cardinal, so they make no sense because a cardinal is a bird. A plant would be unique, but only the Venus Flytrap could work to intimidate. And what about the kiddies? Kids hate Venus Flytraps, studies show.Finally, I cleared my mind, thought of everything Harvard represents...
...chair and rocking back and forth as the words rattle out. "I give an average of 150 shows a night." The Annex is not the only show of its kind. In the past decade some 50 similar enterprises have started up, from California's thriving Learning Exchange and Learning Tree to Chicago's Discovery Center to the Open University in Washington. Zanker, who takes a modest $70,000 salary but holds $5.5 million worth of Annex stock, sweepingly dismisses the competition as "mom-and-pop operations." He has, however, bought out the Open University. "I am the Ziegfeld of adult...